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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Events: Toy Story Birthday Party (Noah's Turning 3)

I've mentioned my nephew Noah here on the blog countless times. If you've followed along, you'll know that Noah is Toy Story's biggest fan. In fact, he loves just about all Pixar movies and calls all the characters his "friends." He's absolutely obsessed...he's just like a little me! We're totally best buds.

Well yesterday was Noah's third birthday and it was none other than Toy Story themed! My sister Katie (Noah's mom) and I had been planning on this for literally over a year, so we were incredibly excited that the day had finally come.

Of course I would be heavily involved, since 99.9% of the decorations were coming from my collection. I was more than happy to help create the magic of Andy's room for his party! I was actually probably looking forward to doing this as much as Noah was excited for his special day.

Without further ado, let's get to checking out what we came up with! If I do say so myself, everything looked just about perfect. I'm so happy with how it all turned out. Oh, and picture everything with Toy Story music in the background- cause that's how it was!

We played a "guess how many army men are in the jar" game. Classic! The winner got a nice little prize.

My dad (he's a professional photographer) took the fantastic "Noah's turning 3" shots featured on the mantel and my sister in-law Laurie did the logo design and the compositing. It couldn't be any cuter!

All the goody bags in the toy wagon was a nice little touch.

Here's Noah in his special birthday Toy Story shirt! Picked up that and the adorable mug at the Disney Store.

We had "Pizza Planet" pizza for dinner! What else?

Brother and sister! My niece Kambria had so much fun dressing up as Jessie for the party.

My wife Brita and I got him some Toy Story "Zing Ems" and the corresponding Pizza Planet Astro Arena playset! Noah and I had been watching videos about those on YouTube for months, so he was absolutely thrilled to get some. That's all he could talk about for the rest of the night! That made us feel good.

Cake time!

He we are playing with his Zing Ems and playset that I helped him set up. He played with that until he was falling asleep...success! The funniest story of the night is when he kept saying "I need all the Zing Ems" over and over and over and over (after he saw the other characters available on the back of the box). I told you, he's a little me! Pixar collector completest mentality.

What's even funnier is that my sister told me that the first thing he said when he woke up this morning was "mommy, I need all the Zing Ems."

Ah, the beauty of using a wide angle lens. Here's everything looking beautiful after everyone left and everything got cleaned up. We didn't want to take it down! My family said I should be a professional Toy Story birthday party decorator and travel around with all my stuff to different events. Hmmm, that's not a bad idea! ;)

Hopefully you enjoyed this peek into last night's fun. This may even help you with some Toy Story birthday party ideas of your own! Be sure to let me know in the comments what you think.